Improvement in belt-fasteners



W. M. CHAPMAN.

BELT-FASTENER. No.169,416. Patented Nov.2,1875.

WITNESSES Attorneys,

".PEIERS, PHOTO-LITMOGMFHER, WASHINGTON. D. Q

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WILLIAM M. CHAPMAN,- OF RAVENNA, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN BE LT-FASTENERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 169,416, dated November2, 1875; application filed August 28, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM M. QHAPMAN, of Ravenna, inthecountyofPort-ageand State of Ohio, have invented a new and valuableImprovement in Belt-Fasteners 5 and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of. the constructionand operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings,making a part of-this specification, and to the letters and figures ofreference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of a longitudinal sectionof my belt-fastening, and Fig. 2 is a plan view thereof.

This invention has relation to improvements in belt-fasteners; and thenature of the invention consists in curved metallic rods, having throughtheir ends an oblong slot, which bars are inserted into apertures madein the ends of the belt, and are held against being drawn out of thesame by means of a latch-pin passing through the slotted ends of thesaid rods, whereby a very strong union of the ends of the belt issecured, as will be hereinafter more fully explained and claimed.

In the annexed drawings, A A designate the two ends of an ordinary belt,having a number of spaced slots, a, cut through them.

These slots occupy in each end the same relative position-that is tosay, they are at an equal distance apart, and equidistant from thelateral edges of the belt. B represents curved metallic rods of suitablestrength, having slightly-broadened ends, through which, preferably,oblong slots 8 are out, for a purpose hereinafter explained.

The ends of the belt having been approximated, as shown in Fig. l, theends of rods B are passed through the slots in the beltjends occupyingthe same relative positions, projecting through the said beltsufficiently to expose slots 8 in the ends of. the rods. A latchbar, 0,is then passed through all the slots in adjacent ends of rods B, therebypreventing the latterfrom becoming detached from the belt, and therebyholding the belts to a rigid but easily-dissolved union.

In order that latch-rods 0 may not become shouldered enlargement, c,greatly resembling the blade of a paddle, which enlargement will readilypass through slots 8 in the ends of the link-rods, but which, being ofgreater width than the said slots, wilhwhen the said rods are given aquarter rotation, be held against endwise displacement, whereby the saidrods would be allowed to escape from the slots in the link rods, therebydisuniting the belt ends.

It is evident, when the belt is stretched over pulley-wheels, that theflat side of enlargements 0 will be pressed against the belt withconsiderable force, thus preventing the latch-rod from the slightestrotation, and absolutely preventing its withdrawal from the slots in thelink-rods.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a belt-fastener, the combination, with the curved link-rods B,having slots 8, of the latch-rods 0, having shouldered enlargement 0',substantially as specified.

2. The latch-rod 0, having an enlargement, c, at each end, adapted foruse substantially as specified.

3. The combination, with the belt-ends A A, having slots a, of thecurved slotted linkrods B and latch-rods (J, substantially as specifieIn testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

WILEIAM M, CHAPMAN.

